Also announced this week are the 2009 TFCA (Toronto Film Critics Association) award winners. One can faithfully assume the Golden Globe winners will be safe and populist, which makes the TFCA winners and runners-up more intriguing because they embrace some rebels, newcomers, egotists, and indie filmmakers whose works are in fact/will be out on DVD, and should be sought out after you’ve gone through the safer crème de la crème of studio fodder.

As always, titles available/soon to be released on DVD and Blu-ray are hyperlinked to Amazon.ca and Amazon.com (depending on first availability).

Categories I’d like to see added to the list in 2010 include Best Cinematography and Best Score.

Sliding the soapbox back under the desk... and now to the winners:

BEST PICTURE (TIE)

“Hunger” (Maple Pictures) --- now available in Canada via Maple. Criterion DVD+BR to be released Feb. 16/2010“Inglourious Basterds” (Alliance Films)